Key concepts need to remember:
Week 02
- Power of media
● Media amplify and accelerate
- Media act like a magnifier and a speed booster: they take
existing ideas, emotions, or conflicts and spread them widely
and quickly, often making their impact stronger or more
extreme.
- TikTok amplifies the discussion of body image and mental
health. This helped raise awareness (a positive effect), but it
also accelerated pressure to conform to certain beauty
standards
● Technology shape our society
- We are trying to do or buy something in our daily life
because we saw someone do it online.
● Society shapes technology
- The development of technology is based on people's needs in
society
- Viewing: Truman Show
● What is Truman's way of dealing with this situation in the film?
- He tries to escape
● Why would Truman leave his perfect life in media
- because he felt the world is not authentic
- Truman show highlight 2 issues:
, 1. When using media, mediated reality adapts itself to your
experience, just like Truman's world changes when he does
something unexpected
2. Like Truman, all we really are is personal information--data will be
stored and processed
-
- Viewing: Life in a day
● It talks about how people use media to see a day in their lives all
over the world.
● link with the concept of:
- people increasingly feel more comfortable with media
- doing free labor for media (volunteer for recording their live)
● Debate related to
- It would be interesting to investigate what makes people think they
are special
- Three qualities of media
1. Media disappears
- It is one fundamental function of artifacts
- It break done into one, people use it with unnoticed
2. Media is what people do
- almost everything in life involves media
3. People love media
- emotional and intimate bond--> joy/fear
- Features of media life
1. media co-create world: networks, communities, identities.
2. They amplify inequalities (gender, race, poverty, climate, conflict)
3. the media blur public and private boundaries
4. experiences differ by context (region, class, race, access)
- The media need us as we need media
● Humans have agency
, ● Media need us = media is dependent and develop on our
engagement. They are trainned for the future by our reaction
● Us need media = we use media to relex and it accelerates the
inormation we get
- Eight insights of media in life
1. Media is pervasive and ubiquitous
2. Media is a source of profound pleasure and fun
3. Media rise ethical issues
4. Media has long histories that are complicated
- because of the remediation of media
5. People increasingly comfortable with media
6. People relatively confident using media
7. People has a little concerns of doing work for media
8. People accept surveillance are familiar and ordinary
- Pervasive
● Insert to people’s daily life everywhere and shape the social （社会
生活意识上的渗透）
→ cannot switch off
- Ubiquitous
● Everywhere in people’s life (空间上的无所不在)
- Infodomic
● Rapid and widespread of misleading or false information
- Technomypia
● Focusing only on short-term convenience and benefits but ignore
the long-term risk
● Argument of techomypia
- The rise of AI might cause unemployment
- Omnoptic surveillance
● Unconscious surveillance that people share their lives themselves
and are spying by others (friends, family)
, ● Not only by government or corporations but also by each other
- What will be the final result of the trend that everyone watch each other?
● everyone share their live and spy by others
→ this will lead to normalize surveillance
- Synoptic survelliance
● A system where the Many can watch the Few
- People what state
- Panoptic survelliance
● A system where the Few watch the Many
- The state watches people
- Three fundamental assumptions
1. Media as artifacts
● Every single devices
2. Media as activities
● Every single way to use media
3. Media as arrangement
● Every single way to arrange groups in media
- Media as artifacts:
1. Joy sticks
2. Computer Mouse
3. Remote control
4. Interface
5. Mobile phone
6. Video recorder
● ‘Space commander’- remote controller
- Back in the day, target to men mainly
- Remediation
● The process in which new media adopt and remix the old media
become a newer media
Week 02
- Power of media
● Media amplify and accelerate
- Media act like a magnifier and a speed booster: they take
existing ideas, emotions, or conflicts and spread them widely
and quickly, often making their impact stronger or more
extreme.
- TikTok amplifies the discussion of body image and mental
health. This helped raise awareness (a positive effect), but it
also accelerated pressure to conform to certain beauty
standards
● Technology shape our society
- We are trying to do or buy something in our daily life
because we saw someone do it online.
● Society shapes technology
- The development of technology is based on people's needs in
society
- Viewing: Truman Show
● What is Truman's way of dealing with this situation in the film?
- He tries to escape
● Why would Truman leave his perfect life in media
- because he felt the world is not authentic
- Truman show highlight 2 issues:
, 1. When using media, mediated reality adapts itself to your
experience, just like Truman's world changes when he does
something unexpected
2. Like Truman, all we really are is personal information--data will be
stored and processed
-
- Viewing: Life in a day
● It talks about how people use media to see a day in their lives all
over the world.
● link with the concept of:
- people increasingly feel more comfortable with media
- doing free labor for media (volunteer for recording their live)
● Debate related to
- It would be interesting to investigate what makes people think they
are special
- Three qualities of media
1. Media disappears
- It is one fundamental function of artifacts
- It break done into one, people use it with unnoticed
2. Media is what people do
- almost everything in life involves media
3. People love media
- emotional and intimate bond--> joy/fear
- Features of media life
1. media co-create world: networks, communities, identities.
2. They amplify inequalities (gender, race, poverty, climate, conflict)
3. the media blur public and private boundaries
4. experiences differ by context (region, class, race, access)
- The media need us as we need media
● Humans have agency
, ● Media need us = media is dependent and develop on our
engagement. They are trainned for the future by our reaction
● Us need media = we use media to relex and it accelerates the
inormation we get
- Eight insights of media in life
1. Media is pervasive and ubiquitous
2. Media is a source of profound pleasure and fun
3. Media rise ethical issues
4. Media has long histories that are complicated
- because of the remediation of media
5. People increasingly comfortable with media
6. People relatively confident using media
7. People has a little concerns of doing work for media
8. People accept surveillance are familiar and ordinary
- Pervasive
● Insert to people’s daily life everywhere and shape the social （社会
生活意识上的渗透）
→ cannot switch off
- Ubiquitous
● Everywhere in people’s life (空间上的无所不在)
- Infodomic
● Rapid and widespread of misleading or false information
- Technomypia
● Focusing only on short-term convenience and benefits but ignore
the long-term risk
● Argument of techomypia
- The rise of AI might cause unemployment
- Omnoptic surveillance
● Unconscious surveillance that people share their lives themselves
and are spying by others (friends, family)
, ● Not only by government or corporations but also by each other
- What will be the final result of the trend that everyone watch each other?
● everyone share their live and spy by others
→ this will lead to normalize surveillance
- Synoptic survelliance
● A system where the Many can watch the Few
- People what state
- Panoptic survelliance
● A system where the Few watch the Many
- The state watches people
- Three fundamental assumptions
1. Media as artifacts
● Every single devices
2. Media as activities
● Every single way to use media
3. Media as arrangement
● Every single way to arrange groups in media
- Media as artifacts:
1. Joy sticks
2. Computer Mouse
3. Remote control
4. Interface
5. Mobile phone
6. Video recorder
● ‘Space commander’- remote controller
- Back in the day, target to men mainly
- Remediation
● The process in which new media adopt and remix the old media
become a newer media
